Frankenstorm Sandy

Gaige · 10-29-2012, 09:42 AM

rain and wind picked up a little around 10:30 am

easygoingfemme · 10-29-2012, 10:08 AM

It's getting dark and blustery here.
I just went to go run one last errand and it's an interesting dynamic out there. Lots of folks shopping in their pajamas, calm, interesting.
Schools just closed. I live right on a river so I went and took pictures of the water levels so I can compare later. When Irene went through that was one of the things that put me in an evacuation zone- the locks and bridges were unstable and blowing out.
Now we wait and see. Trying to get as much work done as I can while I have power...

Ginger · 10-29-2012, 10:18 AM

Folks in part of New Jersey, Long Island and of course low-lying parts of Brooklyn are much worse off than those in my immediate neighborhood, though my worry ratcheted up a tiny bit when I looked out my 9th-floor window and saw that some of the people in buildings across the street have criss-crossed tape on their windows, or cardboard.

They're closing the tunnels at 2 today; subways, busses and commuter trains were shut down last night.

The worse part will be around 8 tonight. High tide and the storm's peak are going to hit at the same time.

I'm watching sheets of rain move down the street. And I swear, there are white globs that look like snow falling on my balcony, but I know it must be something else. Trees are already falling.

It's easy to forget, I live on an island. But now I'm acutely aware of it.

Ginger · 10-29-2012, 10:22 AM

Mayor Bloomberg is live on TV urging people to leave the evacuated areas now, if they haven't done so already, while there is still a window of time in which they can safely move outside. "Conditions are deteriorating rapidly," he said.

MissItalianDiva · 10-29-2012, 10:32 AM

Just got some pictures from my uncle who lives in SI and did not evacuate...smh hard headed. Does not look good at all.

Julie · 10-29-2012, 10:44 AM

The rain has just started... However -- 10 minutes from me and across the river an hour ago.

stargazingboi · 10-29-2012, 11:36 AM

The rain is getting heavier here and the winds are picking up pretty good over the course of the last 15 minutes.

I have found myself smirking at folks messages on the boards that they used to board up their windows such as the one below..

and a line from the movie grease "sandy- sandy why-yi-yi-yi-yi oh sandy" on another one...so many more as you drive down the streets.

selves are empty and I mean empty

waves have been coming in higher

flooding has started

oh and its already been reported that thousands here in CT are without power.....and we're just getting started...fun times

ruthie14 · 10-29-2012, 11:46 AM

Ocean city right now...

Sparkle · 10-29-2012, 10:30 AM

It's getting blustery up in Western Mass now.

I'm cooking up everything perishable and about to have a very long hot shower lest we lose power later.

So far the forecast is predicting high winds and widespread power outages. The wind is usually to the right of the path of the storm, the heavy rains and flooding to the left. I'm really hoping we don't get hit with the heavy heavy rains, this region was ravaged with flash floods last year, the last thing those communities need is more of the same. But I did run to my office earlier (school is closed) to pull everything up from the floor - during Irene we discovered my office was the lowest point in the building after the local stream flooded, came up through the drains in the old mill building we're housed in and all of the water ran through the hallways and pooled in my office.

Stay safe and dry and warm - everyone!

Corkey · 10-29-2012, 12:58 PM

Erie checking in. Raining steadily for days now, winds picking up.
Line of thundershowers coming through in a few minutes. Have land line so we'll be able to stay in touch with each other. Ami has gone to work, hopefully she'll get to come home before the shit hits the fan.

easygoingfemme · 10-29-2012, 01:03 PM

I'm taking a work break to watch Ivan Coyote videos while I still have power. Perhaps Ivan could be worked into DWM's drinking game. Drink every time you laugh or your heart skips a beat?

Still just dark and blustery here.

Dance-with-me · 10-29-2012, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

I'm taking a work break to watch Ivan Coyote videos while I still have power. Perhaps Ivan could be worked into DWM's drinking game. Drink every time you laugh or your heart skips a beat?

Mmmmm. Woof.

BrutalDaddy · 10-29-2012, 01:19 PM

Okay, company shut me down for the rest of the day in Buckhorn, PA. Wind and rain just too rough right now for me to drive in. Sooooo....online time!

Totally Gonna Take Advantage,
Brute.

P.S. Those who live in the path of Sandy, please take care of yourselves best you can. Y'all in 'sational's and mine's thoughts and prayers.

NJFemmie · 10-29-2012, 10:10 AM

Still quiet here. Now it seems that later tonight will be the actual moment of truth. Closer to 6-8pm. This thing is crawling. The winds pick up and die down.

Good news is Mare gets to stay home. That is a huge load off my mind. The roads here are prone to flooding and since we live in the sticks of south jersey so to speak, there will be downed trees everywhere.

Once again, stay safe, be safe.

Dance-with-me · 10-29-2012, 10:19 AM

Just found out that a friend who lives in a very flood prone area with her three kids has decided NOT to evacuate despite evacuation orders. Now THAT just pisses me off -- she can decide that for herself, but her kids deserve not to go through that.

clay · 10-29-2012, 10:23 AM

Holding all of you up in thoughts & prayers!! PLEASE stay safe!!! Thanks for the check ins.
I was texting with a friend in Balto...she lost landline already...left just with cell.
She said rain is coming down sideways and in torrents where she is..and real windy. I think late this evening is when Sandy is predicted to hit in her area..

Dance-with-me · 10-29-2012, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by claybaby

Holding all of you up in thoughts & prayers!! PLEASE stay safe!!! Thanks for the check ins.
I was texting with a friend in Balto...she lost landline already...left just with cell.
She said rain is coming down sideways and in torrents where she is..and real windy. I think late this evening is when Sandy is predicted to hit in her area..

Where is she in Baltimore? I'm in the city, and it's just a normal rain, breezy but definitely not anything torrential or sideways - more like a normal breezy rainstorm. If she's east of Baltimore, then perhaps that's what's on its way here?

Martina · 10-29-2012, 10:42 AM

Wonder how Maryoosa is doing? I am not on Facebook anymore. If anyone knows, . . . I saw that her area of NY seems to be largely evacuated.

MissItalianDiva · 10-29-2012, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martina

Wonder how Maryoosa is doing? I am not on Facebook anymore. If anyone knows, . . . I saw that her area of NY seems to be largely evacuated.

She should have been evacuated she lives in the same area as my mother. Hope she is ok

WolfyOne · 10-29-2012, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Dance-with-me

Where is she in Baltimore? I'm in the city, and it's just a normal rain, breezy but definitely not anything torrential or sideways - more like a normal breezy rainstorm. If she's east of Baltimore, then perhaps that's what's on its way here?

I have a friend in Jessup that posted on her FB 5 hours ago, said it was wet and windy there then. Haven't heard a peep out of her since that post.

10-29-2012, 09:42 AM	#1
Gaige Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Stone Butch Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: above my boots Posts: 2,097 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,649 Thanked 3,755 Times in 1,171 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Baltimore, MD rain and wind picked up a little around 10:30 am

10-29-2012, 10:44 AM	#6
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10-29-2012, 11:36 AM	#7
stargazingboi Senior Member How Do You Identify?: ~ Preferred Pronoun?: ~ Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: ~ Posts: 1,954 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 10,392 Thanked 8,317 Times in 1,626 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	here ya go Medusa The rain is getting heavier here and the winds are picking up pretty good over the course of the last 15 minutes. I have found myself smirking at folks messages on the boards that they used to board up their windows such as the one below.. and a line from the movie grease "sandy- sandy why-yi-yi-yi-yi oh sandy" on another one...so many more as you drive down the streets. selves are empty and I mean empty waves have been coming in higher flooding has started oh and its already been reported that thousands here in CT are without power.....and we're just getting started...fun times

10-29-2012, 10:30 AM	#9
Sparkle Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, please Relationship Status: Loved Up Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Western MA Posts: 2,183 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,001 Thanked 6,551 Times in 1,552 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	It's getting blustery up in Western Mass now. I'm cooking up everything perishable and about to have a very long hot shower lest we lose power later. So far the forecast is predicting high winds and widespread power outages. The wind is usually to the right of the path of the storm, the heavy rains and flooding to the left. I'm really hoping we don't get hit with the heavy heavy rains, this region was ravaged with flash floods last year, the last thing those communities need is more of the same. But I did run to my office earlier (school is closed) to pull everything up from the floor - during Irene we discovered my office was the lowest point in the building after the local stream flooded, came up through the drains in the old mill building we're housed in and all of the water ran through the hallways and pooled in my office. Stay safe and dry and warm - everyone! __________________ I am made of stars

10-29-2012, 12:58 PM	#10
Corkey Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Human Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: Very Married Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Where I want to be Posts: 8,155 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 47,491 Thanked 29,268 Times in 6,637 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	Erie checking in. Raining steadily for days now, winds picking up. Line of thundershowers coming through in a few minutes. Have land line so we'll be able to stay in touch with each other. Ami has gone to work, hopefully she'll get to come home before the shit hits the fan. __________________ "Many proposals have been made to us to adopt your laws, your religion, your manners and your customs. We would be better pleased with beholding the good effects of these doctrines in your own practices, than with hearing you talk about them". ~Old Tassel, Chief of the Tsalagi (Cherokee)

10-29-2012, 10:08 AM	#2
easygoingfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Lil' Miss Sassy Pants Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: My place by the river Posts: 3,700 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,032 Thanked 14,981 Times in 3,323 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	It's getting dark and blustery here. I just went to go run one last errand and it's an interesting dynamic out there. Lots of folks shopping in their pajamas, calm, interesting. Schools just closed. I live right on a river so I went and took pictures of the water levels so I can compare later. When Irene went through that was one of the things that put me in an evacuation zone- the locks and bridges were unstable and blowing out. Now we wait and see. Trying to get as much work done as I can while I have power...

10-29-2012, 10:18 AM	#3
Ginger Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme lesbian Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: East coast Posts: 2,416 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,829 Thanked 12,296 Times in 2,057 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Folks in part of New Jersey, Long Island and of course low-lying parts of Brooklyn are much worse off than those in my immediate neighborhood, though my worry ratcheted up a tiny bit when I looked out my 9th-floor window and saw that some of the people in buildings across the street have criss-crossed tape on their windows, or cardboard. They're closing the tunnels at 2 today; subways, busses and commuter trains were shut down last night. The worse part will be around 8 tonight. High tide and the storm's peak are going to hit at the same time. I'm watching sheets of rain move down the street. And I swear, there are white globs that look like snow falling on my balcony, but I know it must be something else. Trees are already falling. It's easy to forget, I live on an island. But now I'm acutely aware of it.

10-29-2012, 10:22 AM	#4
Ginger Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme lesbian Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: East coast Posts: 2,416 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,829 Thanked 12,296 Times in 2,057 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Mayor Bloomberg is live on TV urging people to leave the evacuated areas now, if they haven't done so already, while there is still a window of time in which they can safely move outside. "Conditions are deteriorating rapidly," he said.

10-29-2012, 10:32 AM	#5
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10-29-2012, 11:46 AM	#8
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10-29-2012, 01:03 PM	#11
easygoingfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Lil' Miss Sassy Pants Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: My place by the river Posts: 3,700 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,032 Thanked 14,981 Times in 3,323 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	I'm taking a work break to watch Ivan Coyote videos while I still have power. Perhaps Ivan could be worked into DWM's drinking game. Drink every time you laugh or your heart skips a beat? Still just dark and blustery here.

10-29-2012, 01:19 PM	#13
BrutalDaddy Member How Do You Identify?: Her Asshole. Preferred Pronoun?: Him, hym, he, whatever. Relationship Status: Bitch has no more excuses now. Join Date: May 2012 Location: Lower Alabama Posts: 519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 206 Thanked 2,784 Times in 499 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	Okay, company shut me down for the rest of the day in Buckhorn, PA. Wind and rain just too rough right now for me to drive in. Sooooo....online time! Totally Gonna Take Advantage, Brute. P.S. Those who live in the path of Sandy, please take care of yourselves best you can. Y'all in 'sational's and mine's thoughts and prayers.

10-29-2012, 10:10 AM	#14
NJFemmie Senior Member How Do You Identify?: The original lime-twisted femme Preferred Pronoun?: I answer to most things, especially lesbian. Relationship Status: Still loving my Mare ;) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: New Jersey Posts: 4,683 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,343 Thanked 11,421 Times in 2,977 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Still quiet here. Now it seems that later tonight will be the actual moment of truth. Closer to 6-8pm. This thing is crawling. The winds pick up and die down. Good news is Mare gets to stay home. That is a huge load off my mind. The roads here are prone to flooding and since we live in the sticks of south jersey so to speak, there will be downed trees everywhere. Once again, stay safe, be safe. __________________

10-29-2012, 10:19 AM	#15
Dance-with-me Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: earth Posts: 419 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 264 Thanked 1,926 Times in 378 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	Just found out that a friend who lives in a very flood prone area with her three kids has decided NOT to evacuate despite evacuation orders. Now THAT just pisses me off -- she can decide that for herself, but her kids deserve not to go through that. __________________ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~Mahatma Gandhi

10-29-2012, 10:23 AM	#16
clay Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Butch (Silver Fox) Dom Daddi Preferred Pronoun?: 50 Shades of Clay Darker & Deeper Relationship Status: married to my forever Join Date: May 2011 Location: salt air & sandy beaches Posts: 13,136 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 97,020 Thanked 31,650 Times in 7,746 Posts Rep Power: 21474865	Holding all of you up in thoughts & prayers!! PLEASE stay safe!!! Thanks for the check ins. I was texting with a friend in Balto...she lost landline already...left just with cell. She said rain is coming down sideways and in torrents where she is..and real windy. I think late this evening is when Sandy is predicted to hit in her area.. __________________ To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. ~Robert Brault

10-29-2012, 10:42 AM	#18
Martina Senior Member How Do You Identify?: * Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: * Posts: 4,999 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,409 Thanked 18,276 Times in 4,164 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	Wonder how Maryoosa is doing? I am not on Facebook anymore. If anyone knows, . . . I saw that her area of NY seems to be largely evacuated.

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